Studies show that healthcare sector in Brazil is a highlighted sector in the current scenario of the country, mainly due to dissatisfaction of the population with respect to the services provided. This sector is under ...

The lean healthcare tool is progressively emerging as an alternative to achieving fficiency, reducing waste, increasing quality and safety in healthcare processes. In view of this reality, this work aims to bring proposals ...

The application of Lean Philosophy in a healthcare environment is still a relatively new field of research, but there already exists a considerable amount of literature on the topic. This article structures, analyzes and ...

Many hospitals have achieved high levels of lean performance only to lose it later on. These hospitals, which often achieved excellent results, neglected some specific aspects of sustaining lean improvements in their ...

The dissertation presented here is entitled Lean Healthcare: strategy for qualifying management in healthcare and nursing, and it was aimed at implementing and evaluating the application of the lean methodology principles ...

Every day we are faced with constant waste and activities that do not add any value in hospitals. Aspects related to communication, unnecessary movement of professionals, patients, materials and information, useless ...

Brazilian hospitals typically work with a depression between capacity and demand. The public and private subsystems are unable to coordinate situations of shortage and excess capacity identified in their respective structures, ...

Brazilian hospitals typically work with a depression between capacity and demand. The public and private subsystems are unable to coordinate situations of shortage and excess capacity identified in their respective structures, ...

A pesar de que parece a veces simple, no es fácil explicar la esencia del término Lean -- Lean ayuda a las organizaciones a optimizar sus costos a través de la eliminación de los desperdicios lo que conlleva a un aumento ...